California Assembly Bill AB2128 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2128AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 1, 2010 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 25, 2010 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gaines FEBRUARY 18, 2010 An act to amend  Sections 7583.39 and 7583.40 of   Section 7583.40 of, and to repeal and add Section 7583.39 of,  the Business and Professions Code, relating to private security services. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2128, as amended, Gaines. Private security services: insurance policies. The Private Security Services Act provides for the licensure and regulation of private patrol operators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a private patrol operator employing a security guard who carries a firearm to maintain an insurance policy that provides minimum limits of insurance of $500,000 for any one loss due to bodily injury or death and $500,000 for any one loss due to injury or destruction of property. This bill would instead require  a   all  private patrol  operator employing any security guard   operators or applicants for licensure  to  maintain   file or have on file   with the bureau  an insurance policy  and would require  that  insurance policy to provide  provides  minimum limits of insurance of $1,000,000 for any one loss due to bodily injury or death and $1,000,000 for any one loss due to injury or destruction of property. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no   yes  . State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:  SECTION 1.   Section 7583.39 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 7583.39. No private patrol operator who employs any security guard shall engage in any of the practices for which he or she is required to be licensed by this chapter, unless he or she maintains an insurance policy as defined in Section 7583.40.   SECTION 1.   Section 7583.39 of the   Business and Professions Code   is repealed.   7583.39. No private patrol operator who employs a security guard who carries a firearm as part of his or her duties shall engage in any of the practices for which he or she is required to be licensed by this chapter, unless he or she maintains an insurance policy as defined in Section 7583.40.   SEC. 2.   Section 7583.39 is added to the   Business and Professions Code   , to read:  7583.39. The bureau shall require, as a condition precedent to the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued maintenance of a license, that the applicant or licensee file or have on file an insurance policy, as defined in Section 7583.40.   SEC. 2.  SEC. 3.  Section 7583.40 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 7583.40. "Insurance policy," as used in this article, means a contract of liability insurance issued by an insurance company authorized to transact business in this state that provides minimum limits of insurance of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for any one loss due to bodily injury or death  and)   and  one million dollars ($1,000,000) for any one loss due to injury or destruction of property.